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POLITICS3h agoSerbia after Vucic: The winners are losing patienceAfter the Student List's election victory, Aleksandar Vucic's power apparatus is disintegrating. People want justice as soon as possible. But the losers still hold sway in the judiciary and administration.DW News [en]
POLITICS1d agoThe Anatomy of Forging Freedom: Lessons from Serbia’s StudentsThere were doubts about how a decentralised, leaderless civic movement could possibly transform itself into a political alternative at the ballot box. But the students had already shown that their democratic imagination knew few limits.Balkan Insight
POLITICS1d agoLetter from Washington: US Conservatives Lose Their Ally in SerbiaDC lobbyists working for Albanian and Bosnian politicians look to burnish tarnished reputations as US conservatives lose another ally in the Balkans after Vucic’s loss in the Serbian elections.Balkan Insight
POLITICS1d agoIncriminating material possibly shredded in Serbia as corruption hunt beginsDat de aanstaande machthebbers van Servië er een hele kluif aan krijgen om hun voorgangers te vervolgen voor corruptie, was al duidelijk. Maar het wordt mogelijk nog een stuk lastiger nu er aanwijzingen zijn dat overheidsinstellingen documenten door de versnipperaar halen. De hoogste aanklager van het land beveelt dat de vernietiging moet stoppen. In een verklaring roept ze aanklagers in het hele land op ervoor te zorgen dat de politie ingrijpt en melding maakt van dergelijke praktijken. De vernietiging is strafbaar en ze roept op elke poging daartoe te registreren. Haar instructie is "dringenNOS Buitenland
POLITICS1d agoStudent-backed election winners demand sweeping resignations in SerbiaDays after ousting Aleksandar Vučić's party from power, Student List MPs call for top figures to stand down.BBC World
POLITICS2d agoAfter the victory: The foreign policy and governing challenges facing Serbia’s student movementThe victory of Serbia’s Student List has fundamentally changed the country’s political landscape. But winning the election may prove to have been the easier part.EuroNews [en]
POLITICS2d agoChange in Power in Serbia Brings Headaches for Central Europe’s GovernmentsHungary, Czechia and Slovakia developed deep ties with Vucic’s Serbia over the past decade, which the new Serbian leadership will find hard to simply move past.Balkan Insight
POLITICS2d agoSerbia’s Public Broadcaster RTS Faces Uncertainty as Director-General ResignsSpeculation is mounting over who will run Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS after its director-general Manja Grcic acceded to Student List demands and resigned on Wednesday evening.Balkan Insight
POLITICS2d agoAfter Vucic ouster, Serbia’s weapons-buying habits are under the microscopeOne of Europe’s key arms purchasers, Serbia, is likely to slow down procurement and investigate the probity of recent buys after a student-led protest movement ousted the country’s long-time strongman leader in a surprise election win on Sunday.Defense News
POLITICS2d agoSecurity Services Must Be Reformed to Dismantle Serbia’s Mafia StateAfter 14 years of rule by Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party, the state’s security and police institutions are compromised. Swift reforms and strong oversight mechanisms are necessary to end abuses and build a safer country.Balkan Insight
POLITICS2d agoWhat European students can learn from their Serbian peersThe Serbian student mobilisation chose a political strategy that ensured its success where others had failed.Al Jazeera [en]
POLITICSBREAKING2d agoSerbians storm TV studio as pro-Vucic media faces reckoningAl Jazeera [en]
POLITICS3d agoHow Far Could the Student List Reshape Serbia? | A Debrief With Misha GlennyEurope Center Resident Senior Fellow Ilva Tare speaks with Misha Glenny to discuss Serbia's parliamentary results. The post How Far Could the Student List Reshape Serbia? | A Debrief With Misha Glenny appeared first on Atlantic Council.Atlantic Council
POLITICS3d ago"Advancing the country's future in the EU": After the legislative elections, where does Serbia stand in its accession process?DÉCRYPTAGE - La Serbie, pays officiellement candidat à l’adhésion depuis 2012, ne remplit pas encore les critères requis par Bruxelles. L’alternance résultant des élections législatives du 25 octobre pourrait cependant amorcer des réformes accélérant le calendrier des négociations.Le Figaro International
POLITICS3d agoFrom basketball stars to bankers: Meet Serbia's new leaders after historic student movementFour leading men are in contention for Serbia’s vacant prime minister slot after former president Aleksandar Vucic was ousted from office in a snap election - so who are they?The Independent World
POLITICS3d agoMeet Serbia's potential new leaders: A banker, a basketball star and a chemistThe nation is waiting to find out who will become prime minister after a leaderless student movement won the electionThe Independent World
POLITICS3d agoSerbian elections winner 'clearly seek better relations' with the EU, says expertMarko Prelec, analyst at the International Crisis Group, believes dismantling outgoing prime minister Aleksandar Vučić system will take a long time but thinks it's "premature" to worry about the Students List movement capacity to lead the country.EuroNews [en]
POLITICS3d agoWhy China ties with Serbia face scrutiny, not severance, after historic Vucic lossMassive crowds, fireworks and dancing have filled the streets across Belgrade since Serbia’s nationalist strongman Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary election after 14 years in power. The political shift could cool diplomatic ties between Beijing and Belgrade and invite sharper scrutiny of Chinese investments in Serbia, but was unlikely to upend a relationship built on years of cooperation, analysts argued. Vucic conceded the defeat of his right-wing Serbian Progressive...South China Morning Post
POLITICS3d agoAfter the Election Party, What Lies Ahead for Serbia?The Student List comes to power with popular goodwill but faces institutionalised corruption, entrenched criminal networks and economic mismanagement left behind by Aleksandar Vucic’s 14 years of rule.Balkan Insight
POLITICS3d agoSerbian opposition landslide exposes cost of EU’s bet on ousted VučićThe EU spent over a decade treating the Serbian strongman as indispensable. Now it needs to handle a skeptical incoming government.Politico Europe
POLITICS4d ago'Committed To European Integration': Student List's Srdanovic On Serbia's Post-Vucic FutureAleksandar Vucic’s election defeat has ended more than a decade of political dominance and handed victory to Serbia’s student-led opposition movement. RFE/RL's Balkan Service spoke with Ilija Srdanovic, the top candidate for the Student List party on what comes next for the country.RFE/RL
POLITICS4d agoSerbia’s student movement topples Vucic’s party after 14 years, but political agenda remains unclearAleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to the Student List after a landslide victory ended his 14-year rule over Serbia in a historic election day.Fox News World
POLITICSBREAKING4d agoProtesters storm Serbian pro-Vucic TV station after his loss at pollsAl Jazeera [en]
POLITICS4d agoSerbian public broadcaster apologizes for years of one-sided news coverage during Aleksandar Vučić’s ruleRadio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) apologized to viewers live on air for having “turned a blind eye to many things,” Serbian outlets reported.Meduza [en]